The expedition of the Attila army to the west officially began, and the attack on the city of Upplan began.

On the defensive side, the Scandinavians, led by Prince Barusenger, were standing on top of the city wall, nervously looking at the enemy below, and in front of the city wall, a group of warriors with thick shields in their hands were driving their shields and carefully placing them on their heads, defending their comrades behind against possible long-range attacks.

The jackals' slings, centaurs' javelins, and bows and arrows in the Attila army were all well-known for their long-range attacks, and the former was fortunate to say that after the previous battles, the Scandinavians also learned from the previous experience and lessons, and wore armor on their bodies when fighting.

But the latter, the centaurs' javelins and bows, even if there is a certain gap with the elves' bows and arrows in terms of accuracy, but in the case of numerical superiority, covering attacks can be suppressed by fire, especially the strong bodies and strong arms of centaurs, which can allow them to carry out long-term fire suppression when they have sufficient ammunition.

This is the ability of centaurs to survive in the northern continent, and it is also the reason why they can be crowned by the three evils of the north, and the reason why they can compete with a large number of jackals and orcs with strong individual strength, as long as it is in a flat place, whether it is a grassland or a forest place, they have absolute self-confidence.

As long as they can't keep up with them, they can shoot their bows and arrows through the enemy's vital points such as the eyes, neck, and heart in a fast movement.

Well, the Scandinavians' defenses were only good at defending against the attacks of gnolls and centaurs, and it would be too whimsical if the giants threw stones, the dragons breathed, and the spellcasters cast their magic, trying to resist them with those shields made of wood in their hands.

Thankfully, today is the first day of the Atila's attack, and they won't necessarily let the few dragons and giants into the battlefield, in a place that is sure to turn into a flesh mill.

After all, no matter how powerful the giants and dragons were, their numbers were there, and in such a battlefield, they could fight a hundred Scandinavians alone, but they would never be able to defeat a thousand Scandinavians.

It's like the dragon that used to be the top predator in the sea, when faced with an untold number of mermaids, what they can do is extremely limited, and even most of the time they can only watch those ant-like things, cutting off their scales piece by piece, eating their flesh and blood.

The jackal stood three hundred meters from the city walls, and in this range, using the maneuver of the slings in his hands, could throw stones at the heads of the Scandinavians.

The centaurs stood not far behind them, their faces full of helplessness, not that they were afraid of fighting and did not want to fight, nor because of the orders from above, which prevented them from leaving the station, but that they had no way to attack.

When the Scandinavians learned from the centaur that the target of the Attila army was Upplan, and confirmed their suspicions, they began to prepare for war, and in addition to concentrating a large number of troops and supplies on Upplan, they also carried out the mission of clearing the wilderness.

The trees around Upland were cut down, leaving not a single tree that could be used as a bow and arrow, and they exterminated all the birds and animals to prevent them from becoming food for the Atilla army.

Of course, such an approach would definitely attract opposition from the druids, but that weak opposition was directly ignored by Siegmund, and in the face of a strong enemy like the Attila army, many things would become less important, even if the belief that had been insisted on was insignificant in the face of survival.

As a result, the centaurs became embarrassed, and the poor logistics of the Atila army were used to transport food and magical materials, but there was no spare space for them to transport ammunition.

Originally, they had planned to cut down trees near Upland City and make arrows and javelins to deal with the next battle, but they didn't expect the Scandinavians to get the information about their chosen target early, and cleared the surrounding walls.

In this way, they are very embarrassed, the weapons and ammunition in their hands are simply not enough to deal with a day's attack, if they attack today, then when the battle is fierce, they can only become cannon fodder.

That's not what the centaurs are willing to do, just like the last expedition to the west, they also rushed to the battlefield when the battle was at its most intense, stepping on the corpses of jackals and orcs, and rushing to the city wall, opening the prelude to white-knuckle warfare.

But the situation now was that Attila and the knights would not pay attention to these things, and they could not afford to let the centaurs sit idly by and watch in such a battle.

Since there is no sufficient ammunition for long-range fire suppression, it is good to use their lives to launch a charge, anyway, the number of centaurs is so large, it doesn't matter if there are some casualties, it can just make room for other races to develop.

The knights were not blind, nor were they stupid, and after the successive rebellions of the centaurs, they also noticed the emotions that were spreading among the centaurs.

These four-hoofed guys are not loyal, at least not as loyal as they appear, their loyalty is not pure, there are too many interests and purposes in it.

But it didn't matter, the knights could put up with that, and in the face of absolute, overwhelming power, they didn't think the centaurs could make any waves.

The reason why no action was taken, on the one hand, is that now that the orcs have been solved, only centaurs and gnolls are left as cannon fodder, and if the centaurs are eliminated and only the gnolls are left, it will affect Attila's plan and weaken the strength of the Attila Empire.

On the other hand, centaurs are different from orcs, their mobility is much better than that of orcs, and it is still difficult to completely eliminate them, so as long as centaurs still have a certain value and some small problems, they can still endure and are willing to endure them.

However, in such a big battle, the knights would never be able to bear it if the centaurs avoided the battle with no ammunition, which was ridiculous and could not be used as a reason.

Think about it, on the battlefield of fierce fighting, a group of centaurs doing nothing next to them, just watching, if you are their allies, watching them so leisurely, will you still be in the mood to fight the enemy?

However, the knights could not bear it, but no other measures were taken now, it was still in the stage where the war had just begun, it was still in the stage of testing each other, and it was not yet time to let the centaurs serve as cannon fodder for the charge.

The knights gave the order to let them use the ammunition in their hands regardless of the cost, even if all the reserves were used up today.

The centaurs had no way to disobey the knights' orders, knowing that when they ran out of ammunition, they would not be used as ranged troops in the rest of the battle, but would play the role of the orcs in the past.

Javelins, wooden javelins, tearing through the air with a screeching sound, were thrown into the sky using the technique of projectiles, and then slashed across an arc like the Scandinavians on the city walls falling.

Like an innumerable rain of meteors, it covered a section of the city wall continuously, and from time to time the Scandinavians fell through it, and the shield in their hands obviously did not work very well in the face of the centaur projectile.

In particular, they are now defending themselves against the slinging attacks of the gnolls with their shields, not noticing the arrival of the centaurs' attacks, the shields are not at the right angle, and the javelins' defenses are not at all in place.

Faced with two different angles, the javelin and the stone, the Scandinavians had no choice but to lower their bodies as low as possible and put their shields on their bodies to avoid being pierced by the attack.

However, this also gave the gnolls the opportunity to attack, pushing a tall ladder made of wood with movable wooden wheels underneath, and the gnolls guarded them with shields.

There are five such things, which are the things that the Atila army has brought with great difficulty, and they can only get these things, and they can't get more complicated things.

"Destroy those things with ballistas. ”

Siegmund stood at the top of the wall, his sword in his other hand brandished, preventing the slings and javelins from approaching, and looked up to observe the situation beneath the walls below.

The effect of these large instruments, the bed crossbow is not very good, the hit rate is on the one hand, and the destructive power is also on the other hand, the bed crossbow is more suitable for killing, but it is not suitable for destruction.

The destructive power of catapults is sufficient, but because of the projectile, the effect is not very good for such moving targets, and their ammunition landing sites will be further back.

So, the ballista became the best thing, and at the command of Siegmund, some of the Scandinavians began to put away their shields, rushed to the ballista, and began to adjust the angle.

Although the ballista is made of wood and is very fragile, it is not something that ordinary small slings and javelins can destroy.

They adjusted the angle slightly, then pressed the launch button, and only to hear a buzz, the stone ball with a diameter of one meter had appeared near the ladders.

Unfortunately, even after a period of training, the Scandinavians have learned from the dwarves how to use and maintain these devices, but they still have very little experience in using them.

Therefore, in the first wave of attacks this time, they just crushed a dozen gnolls into pulp, and made a few stone balls a shield under the city wall.

After the first launch, it takes a certain amount of time to reload the ammunition, there is no way, it is very troublesome to carry the heavy stone projectiles simply, and it will take longer to load the ballista.

Ten minutes, the loading of the ballista took ten minutes, and these ten minutes made the charging troops of the jackals still two hundred meters away from the city wall.

The wheels that were originally made to facilitate movement have now become an obstacle to the progress of the ladder, and it is not so easy for the Scandinavians to get out of the trap that the Scandinavians made before, and the wheels are stuck in it and want to push it out.

The eerie battlefield fell silent, and the Scandinavians couldn't come up with a good way to fight back, except that the ranged suppression of the centaurs and gnolls continued.

Their axe attacks have not yet been able to attack the gnolls below, because of the distance, and more importantly, they also know that this battle will be a protracted war, even if there is a large amount of supplies piled up in the city, they will not dare to use it casually.

If they could, they hoped that every axe would cost an enemy life, even if it was just a delusion.

They didn't know that the enemy's encirclement would last for many times, after all, even if the entire city was full of supplies, even if the enemy's supply lines and transportation lines were very bad, but against an empire with a city, the weight on both sides of the scale was not on the same level.

The ballistas, reloaded, were no longer in a hurry to fire this time, and they moved slowly, aiming to make sure that even if they couldn't destroy the ladders with a single blow, the stone projectiles would hit as they rolled.

The ropes tanned from precious magical materials made a crisp sound in the air, and the violent wind pressure caused by the stone bullets that shot away made the surrounding Scandinavians cling to the surrounding things with their hands, holding their bodies in place and not falling.

The lower angle makes the trajectory of the stone projectiles very straight, showing a straight line, flying in the direction of the ladder, telling the rotating stone ball to rub against the air, bringing a string of bright red flames in the air.

The gnolls' screams of fear were still suppressed in their throats, and before they could shout, the oppression of death made them close their eyes tightly, waiting for fate to come, only to hear a loud noise appear in their ears, and the surroundings suddenly calmed down.

After a few seconds, the gnolls, who were sure that they were not dead, opened their eyes, and they looked around in disbelief, seeing some reddish stones scattered not far from them, steaming hot.

"Did the enemy's caster strike?"

Zigmund standing on the city wall clearly saw what he had just sent, and the stone balls that were about to hit the attack, those stone balls with high-temperature flames on the surface, strangely turned into pieces when they were about to hit.

In such a situation, only strange magic can cause it, and only enemy spellcasters can do it.

Zigmund did not expect that on the first day of this long war, the spellcaster of the opposing side could not wait for the end, which was in line with the habit that the Attila army had always shown, but it was not a choice that a wise commander should have made.